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Picture 1977. Disco is everywhere, punk is snarling in the basement, and somewhere between Philadelphia and Minneapolis two 19-year-olds are quietly re-wiring pop music without ever sharing a room.
Michael Jackson and Prince did not have a documented personal relationship that year. Yet the choices they made at 19 – in studios, contracts and image – set up one of the s...
Call it the most unhinged mentor-student relationship in rock history. Tommy Lee and Ozzy Osbourne did not just share stages; they turned touring into a full-contact sport in self-destruction.
What started with a young Mötley Crüe opening for the already notorious Prince of Darkness in the early 1980s evolved into a decades-long bond built on excess, dark humor...
In the summer of 1967, the Newport Folk Festival was still the closest thing folk music had to church. Onstage that July weekend, two relatively unknown Canadians crossed paths and quietly rewired each other’s lives.
Leonard Cohen was a 32-year-old poet trying to...
The most dangerous note Jim Morrison ever hit wasn’t sung; it was shouted into a sweltering Miami crowd atop a rickety stage. On March 1, 1969, The Doors front man turned a rock concert at Dinner Key Auditorium into a live experiment in provocation, and nearly detonated his own career in the process.
That night became the infamous Miami incident – a chaotic performance...
Rock ’n’ roll was never polite music. It was the sound of cheap amps, sweaty basements and adults muttering that the world was going to hell. For teenagers, that was exactly the point.
From the first jukebox shakers to AC/DC’s arena cannons, rock ’n’ roll is basically one long argument about how loud, how heavy and how outrageous you can make the backbeat before it sto...
